LA IA Group: Table topics

**Please RSVP in order to ensure you can park and to help us estimate how much food to order.** For our July meeting, we will have small group discussions (table topics). We have planned for these 6 topics. If the group is smaller than anticipated, we may find it better to drop a topic or two and save them for a future meeting. 1. Promoting user-centered design in your workplace 2. IA & Interaction Design: The same or different? 3. What types of prototypes for different situations 4. How to describe/document interactions for Flash/RIAs 5. Annotations v functional specs 6. Working with developers/coders FOOD Pizza, pasta, and salads. PARKING Please park in the LA Times employee parking structure at 213 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles 90012 (just south of 2nd and Spring). The guard at the gate will have a list of all participants. After parking, walk north on Spring, cross 2nd Street, make a left on 1st Street, and enter the building at 202 W 1st Street. The guard at the reception area will have a sign-in list and will direct participants to the meeting room on the 5th floor. THANKS in advance to * LA Times Interactive for hosting: Nate Uchida and Mark Banuelos * Our table topic facilitators: Hannah Galloway, Alexis Antonelli, Michael Stancato, Chris Chandler, Christian Sosa-Lanz, Kathy Mirescu

A former member

A former member

First of all, I was in a great mood to arrive after work to a wonderful dinner (That I didn't have to prepare!) After that I saw some old friends and caught up a little bit, which was also a plus. For the table topics, it was great to be able to sit with fellow industry professionals and discuss leading topics in our industry. It was great to meet people and get their take on the industry at large and each topic.

Table topics format was interesting but restricted the number of people I got to interact with. I really do need sopme structure (like the discussion) to break the ice, so I hope we'll reshuffle in the future and du a multi-table table topics sort of thing.

Los Angeles is home to one of the largest volunteer-run User Experience (UX) professional development organization in the world. The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup has more than 3,000 members. Since the organization was founded on April 21, 2007 by Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Craig Nakano and Weston Thompson, over 50 events have been held for User Experience Designers, Information Architects, Interaction Designers, UX Researchers, Usability Analysts and Engineers and others interested in UX-related topics. Our events are open to the public, are usually free and range in size from small gatherings to events with 400 attendees. Some of the topics covered since 2007 have been accessibility, taxonomy, lean UX, Customer Experience (CX), mobile design, prototyping and much more. The group also partners with other local UX groups to put together events. A listing of the other UX organizations in the area can be found on this Quora thread.

Throughout the years, many UX professionals in the Los Angeles area have contributed substantial time and effort to grow the community. In particular, these leaders played a crucial part in the group's history: